Word: conductor
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...most recently, Rosewood. For these and others, Williams has accrued five Oscars, one British Academy Award and 16 Grammys. He has also composed many concert pieces, including several concertos, most recently a trumpet concerto commissioned by the Cleveland Orchestra. Boston audiences are most familiar with Williams as the conductor of the Boston Pops Orchestra. Named the 19th conductor of the Pops in 1980, he retired in 1993. He remains the Conductor Laureate of the Orchestra and is Artist-in-Residence at Tanglewood...
...Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields was founded in 1959 by Sir Neville Marriner--the other half of the radio mantra--as a small chamber ensemble without a conductor. Its name comes from the church in London's Trafalgar Square in which it originally performed. Since then the Academy has grown, performing and touring as a chamber ensemble and expanding at times to a full symphony orchestra. The Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields is responsible for almost 1,000 recordings, more than any other chamber orchestra in the world. It is known popularly for its recordings...
Bach's Orchestral Suite No. 2 is similar to the concerto, and featured flutist Jaime Martin as soloist accompanied by orchestra. A collection of dances composed in the French style, the Suite was clearly the most brilliant piece on Friday's program. With no conductor, the music seemed to come straight from the performers without an intermediary...
...controlled performance, small details of the musicians' gestures marked the orchestra as both startlingly elegant and endearing. One had the sense that these performers were not only consummate musicians but also good friends who truly enjoyed the music they were playing--confirmed by the fact that they needed no conductor. They seemed to move and breathe together as a body...
...century folk hero Till "thumbing his nose" at the scholastic world and causing general mischief, two activities every Harvard student should have mastered by now. The oftenmuddy winds therefore did no permanent damage to the spirit of the music, and were canceled out (sometimes literally) by especially fine brass. Conductor James Yannatos coaxed playfully nuanced dynamics out of the orchestra and achieved another strong finish...